The 31st Infantry Regiment [also called 27th Regiment] completed its
organization in November, 1861, at Cusseta, Georgia. Its companies were
from the counties of Muscogee, Chattahoochee, Monroe, Bartow, Pulaski,
Dawson, and Newton. After serving Savannah it was ordered to Virginia
and placed in Lawton's, John B. Gordon's, and C.A. Evans' Brigade, Army
of Northern Virginia. The 31st participated in various conflicts from
Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor, moved with Early to the Shenandoah
Valley, and took part in the final campaign at Appomattox. It contained
1,200 men when organized, and reported 170 casualties at Gaines' Mill,
55 at Sharpsburg, 78 at Fredericksburg, and 23 at Chancellorsville. The
regiment lost more than twenty-five percent of the 252 engaged at
Gettysburg, and surrendered with 120, of which 66 were armed. The field
officers were Colonel Clement A. Evans, John H. Lowe, and Pleasant J.
Phillips; and Lieutenant Colonels John T. Crowder, Daniel P. Hill, and R.T. Pride.